Latin American artists of the twentieth century : a selection from the exhibition = Artistas latinoamericanos del siglo XX : selecciones de la exposición Date 1993 Publisher The Museum of Modern Art: Distributed by H.N. Abrams ISBN 0870701606, 0810961326 Exhibition URL www.moma.org/calendar/exhibitions/397 The Museum of Modern Art's exhibition history— from our founding in 1929 to the present—is available online. It includes exhibition catalogues, primary documents, installation views, and an index of participating artists. MoMA © 2017 The Museum of Modern Art LATIN AMERICAN ARTISTS OF THE TWENTIETH CENTURY A SELECTION FROM THE EXHIBITION THE MUSEUM OF MODERN ART NEW YORK ARTISTAS LATIN AMERICAN LATINOAMERICANOS ARTISTS DEL SIGLO XX OF THE TWENTIETH CENTURY SELECCIONES A SELECTION DE LA EXPOSICION FROM THE EXHIBITION ARTISTAS LATIN AMERICAN L AT I N O A M E R I C A N O S ARTISTS DEL SIGLO XX OF THE TWENTIETH CENTURY SELECCIONES A SELECTION DE LA EXPOSICION FROM THE EXHIBITION THE MUSEUM OF MODERN ART NEW YORK DISTRIBUTED BY HARRY N. ABRAMS, INC., PUBLISHERS This exhibition is made possible by grants from Mr. and Mrs. Gustavo Cisneros; Banco Mercantil (Venezuela); Mr. and Mrs. Eugenio Mendoza; Agnes Gund; The Rockefeller Foundation; Mrs. Amalia Lacroze de Fortabat; Mr. and Mrs. David Rockefeller; the National Endowment for the Arts; The Interna tional Council of The Museum of Modern Art; Consejo Nacional de la Cultura y Galena de Arte Nacional, Venezuela; and WXTV-Channel 41/Univision Television Group, Inc. The exhibition was commissioned by the Comisaria de la Ciudad de Sevilla para 1992 and organized by The Museum of Modern Art under the auspices of its International Council. The Museum of Modern Art Library INDICE CONTENTS ARTISTAS EN LA EXPOSICION 6 ARTISTS IN THE EXHIBITION PREFACIO 8 FOREWORD ARTISTAS LATINOAMERIC ANOS LATIN AMERICAN ARTISTS DEL SIGLO XX: OF THE TWENTIETH CENTURY: SELECCIONES DE LA EXPOSICION 13 A SELECTION FROM THE EXHIBITION PRESTADORES 62 LENDERS CONSEJO DE DIRECTORES 63 BOARD OF TRUSTEES CREDITOS FOTOGRAFICOS 64 PHOTOGRAPH CREDITS ARTISTS IN THE EXHIBITION ARTISTAS EN LA EXPOSICION Carlos Almaraz Augustfn Cardenas Gego (Gertrude Goldschmidt) MEXICAN-AMERICAN, I94I-I989 CUBAN, BORN 1927 VENEZUELAN, BORN GERMANY, 1912 Carmelo Arden Quin Santiago Cardenas Victor Grippo URUGUAYAN, BORN I 9 13 COLOMBIAN, BORN I 9 3 7 ARGENTINE, BORN I936 Luis Cruz Azaceta Leda Catunda Alberto da Veiga Guignard CUBAN-AMERICAN, BORN I942 BRAZILIAN, BORN 1961 BRAZILIAN, 1896-1962 Frida Baranek Emiliano di Cavalcanti Alberto Heredia BRAZILIAN, BORN 1961 BRAZILIAN, 1897-1976 ARGENTINE, BORN 1924 Rafael Perez Barradas Lygia Clark Alfredo Hlito URUGUAYAN, 189O-I929 SRAZILIAN, I92O— 1< ARGENTINE, I923-I993 Juan Bay Carlos Cruz-Diez Enio lommi ARGENTINE, 1892 — I 9 7 8 VENEZUELAN, BORN I923 ARGENTINE, BORN 1926 Jacques Bedel Jose Luis Cuevas Maria Izquierdo ARGENTINE, BORN I947 MEXICAN, BORN I 9 3 4 MEXICAN, I902-I955 Jose Bedia Jose Cuneo Perinetti Alfredo Jaar CUBAN, BORN I959 URUGUAYAN, 1887-1977 CHILEAN, BORN I 9 5 6 Luis F. Benedit Jorge de la Vega Frida Kahlo ARGENTINE, BORN I 9 3 7 ARGENTINE, I93O-I97I MEXICAN, I907-I954 Antonio Berni Antonio Dias Gyula Kosice ARGENTINE, I905-I981 BRAZILIAN, BORN I944 ARGENTINE, BORN 1924 Martin Blaszko Cicero Dias Frans Krajcberg ARGENTINE, BORN GERMANY, I92O BRAZILIAN, BORN I907 BRAZILIAN, BORN I92I Jacobo Borges Gonzalo Diaz Guillermo Kuitca VENEZUELAN, BORN I 9 3 I CHILEAN, BORN I947 ARGENTINE, BORN 1961 Fernando Botero Eugenio Dittborn Diyi Laan COLOMBIAN, BORN 1932 CHILEAN, BORN 1943 ARGENTINE, BORN 1927 Waltercio Caldas Pedro Figari Wifredo Lam BRAZILIAN, BORN 1946 URUGUAYAN, l86l —1938 CUBAN, 1902-1982 Sergio Camargo Gonzalo Fonseca Jac Leirner BRAZILIAN, I93O— I99O URUGUAYAN, BORN 1922 BRAZILIAN, BORN 1961 Luis Camnitzer Julio Galan Julio Le Pare URUGUAYAN, BORN GERMANY, I9 37 MEXICAN, BORN 1958 ARGENTINE, BORN 1928 Raul Lozza Cesar Paternosto Mira Schendel ARGENTINE, BORN I 9 I I ARGENTINE, BORN I 9 3 I SRAZILIAN, I919-K Rocio Maldonado Liliana Porter Lasar Segall MEXICAN, BORN I 9 5 I ARGENTINE, BORN I94I BRAZILIAN, BORN LITHUANIA, 189I-I957 Tomas Maldonado Candido Portinari Antonio Segui ARGENTINE, BORN I922 BRAZILIAN, I903-I962 ARGENTINE, BORN I934 Marisol (Marisol Escobar) Lidy Prati Daniel Senise VENEZUELAN, BORN PARIS, I93O ARGENTINE, BORN I92I BRAZILIAN, BORN I 9 5 3 Matta (Roberto Sebastian Antonio Eduardo Ramirez Villamizar David Alfaro Siqueiros Matta Echaurren) COLOMBIAN, BORN 1923 MEXICAN, 1896—1974 CHILEAN, BORN I 9 I I Nuno Ramos Ray Smith Cildo Meireles BRAZILIAN, BORN i960 MEXICAN-AMERICAN, BORN I959 BRAZILIAN, BORN 1948 Vicente do Rego Monteiro Jesus Rafael Soto Juan Mele BRAZILIAN, 1899-I97O VENEZUELAN, BORN I923 ARGENTINE, BORN I923 Jose Resende Rufino Tamayo Ana Mendieta BRAZILIAN, BORN I945 MEXICAN, I899-I99I CUBAN, I948-I985 Armando Reveron Francisco Toledo Carlos Merida VENEZUELAN, 1889 —1954 MEXICAN, BORN I94O GUATEMALAN, 1891 —1984 Diego Rivera Joaquin Torres-Garcia Florencia Molina Campos Mexican, 1886-1957 URUGUAYAN, 1874-1949 ARGENTINE, 189I-I959 Arnaldo Roche Rabell Tunga (Antonio Jose de Barros Edgar Negret PUERTO RICAN, BORN I 9 5 5 Carvalho e Mello Mourao) COLOMBIAN, BORN 192O BRAZILIAN, BORN I952 Carlos Rojas Luis Felipe Noe COLOMBIAN, BORN I 9 3 3 Gregorio Vardanega ARGENTINE, BORN I 9 33 ARGENTINE, BORN ITALY, I923 Miguel Angel Rojas Helio Oiticica COLOMBIAN, BORN 1946 Alfredo Volpi BRAZILIAN, 1937 — 1980 BRAZILIAN, BORN ITALY, 1896-I988 Rhod Rothfuss Jose Clemente Orozco URUGUAYAN, I92O-I972 Xul Solar (Oscar Agustin Alejandro MEXICAN, 1883-1949 Schulz Solari) Bernardo Salcedo ARGENTINE, 1887-1963 Rafael Montanez Ortiz COLOMBIAN, BORN 1939 PUERTO RICAN, BORN 1934 Carlos Zerpa Juan Sanchez VENEZUELAN, BORN I95O Alejandro Otero PUERTO RICAN, BORN I954 VENEZUELAN, I92I —I99O 6 7 FOREWORD PREFACIO After years of neglect by cultural institutions in the Marginado durante anos por las instituciones culturales United States and Europe, Latin American art, during estadounidenses y europeas, el arte latinoamericano ha the past decade, has been the subject of several large sido objeto a lo largo de la ultima decada de varias exhibition surveys, as well as represented by retrospec amplias exposiciones, tanto de contenido general como tives of individual artists. The present exhibition is in retrospectivas individuales. En varios aspectos la presente several ways perhaps the most ambitious of these exposicion es, quiza, el mas ambicioso de todos estos efforts, as it represents the works of more than ninety esfuerzos ya que presenta los trabajos de mas de noventa artists with nearly three hundred works, beginning in artistas, con cerca de trescientas obras, empezando en 1914, with the first generation of early modernists, and 1914 con la primera generacion de modernistas y extending to young contemporary artists, including extendiendose hasta los jovenes artistas contemporaneos, Latino artists working in the United States today. entre los que se incluyen artistas latinos que trabajan hoy It is particularly appropriate that the exhibition be en los Estados Unidos. shown at The Museum of Modern Art in New York, Resulta particularmente apropiado que la exposicion because this museum was the first institution outside se exhiba en The Museum of Modern Art, New York, Latin America to collect and exhibit the work of Latin puesto que ha sido precisamente esta institucion la American artists, beginning with an exhibition by the primera, fuera de Latinoamerica, en coleccionar y Mexican master Diego Rivera in 1931, two years after mostrar el trabajo de los artistas latinoamericanos, desde the Museum's founding. The first work by a Latin Amer que, en 1931, se organizase la exposicion del maestro ican artist to enter the Museum's collection was Abby mexicano Diego Rivera, dos anos despues de la fun- Aldrich Rockefeller's 1935 gift of Jose Clemente Orozco's dacion del Museo. La primera obra de un artista latino Subway. When the Latin American collection was exhib americano que integro la coleccion del Museo fue Subway ited for the first time in 1943, it consisted of well over de Jose Clemente Orozco, donada por Abby Aldrich two hundred works. A second, smaller presentation of Rockefeller en 1935. Cuando en 1945 se exhibio por the Latin American collection in 1967 included works primera vez, la coleccion latinoamericana constaba de acquired in the 1960s. Since then, however, relatively mas de doscientas obras. Una segunda y reducida pre- few acquisitions have been made in this area, and one of sentacion de esta coleccion en 1967 incluyo obras my goals for this exhibition is to stimulate interest in adquiridas en la decada de los sesenta. Desde entonces, sin embargo, muy pocas adquisiciones se han llevado a cabo, por lo que uno de los propositos de esta exposicion es propiciar el interes, tanto por la coleccion del Museo 8 D como por posibles futuras adquisiciones. the Museum's collection and the possibility of future Mi propio compromiso hacia el trabajo de los artis- acquisitions. tas latinoamericanos se ha desarrollado durante el curso My own commitment to the work of Latin American de la administracion del Programa Internacional del artists has developed in the course of administering the Museo, a traves del cual mas de cuarenta exposiciones Museum's International Program, through which more han circulado en Latinoamerica durante las tres ultimas than forty exhibitions have circulated in Latin America decadas. Al viajar con muchas de estas exposiciones, he during